Shade-fixture.



No. 717,789. PATENTED JAN. 6, 1790/3.

T. G. WONDBRLY.

SHADE FIXTURE. v

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THOMAS G. WONDERLY, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

SHADE-FixTURE.

SPECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,789, dated aiiary G, 1Q3.

Application filed July 5,1902.' Serial No. 114,459. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS G. WONDERLY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Galena, in the county of Jo Daviess and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a windowframe provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation, and Fig. 8 is a vertical section, of the friction-grip hold er. Fig. dis a vertical section showing one of the shadehangers and one of the buffers. Fig. 5 is a detail vertical section through the top of the window-frame. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views of the two hangers. Fig. S is a detail view of one of the buers, and Fig. 9 is a cross-section of the friction-grip device.

The object of the invention is to provide simple devices by means of which the shade may be bodily raised and lowered and positively heldat any point in the length of the window, whereby the entrance of light and sunshine may be regulated; and the invention consists of the features of construction hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings by letters, a designates the usual spring-roller of the shade, whose pintles are hung in the hangers h, fas; tened to the ends of a rod c,'which is sub-v stantially the same length as the shade-roller and extends across the window-opening parallel with the same. flat plate provided at its upper end with aneye d for attachment of the suspending-cord e or e and a hole f for the passage of the fastening-screw g. The hangers are identical in size and shape except that one'is provided with a hole h and the other with an open slot h for the reception of the respective pintles of the shade-roller, so that either face of each hanger may be secured against the end ot' the rod, thereby permitting the hangers to be readily reversed and exchanged orA shifted from one side to the other to accommodate shades of different make.

The screws g each has its head embedded in a block of rubber or other elastic material t', whose inner face is iiattened and bears against the outer face of the'han ger and whose The hangers are each aouter face'is rounded, so as to act as a buffer and prevent the metal parts coming in contact with the sides of the window-frame and marring the same. A slit t" is formed in the outer face of each louder for the insertion of a screw-driver, so that the hanger may be conveniently fastened in place and removed at will.

The suspending-cord e extends up from eye d of the hanger at the left of the window through a hook j, depending from the inner left-hand corner ofA the top piece of the window-frame, and thence diagonally across and through similar hooks j Z Z, depending from the top piece at the other side of the window, thence down to the eye d of the other hanger. The three hooks j Z l are approximately in line. VAfter the cord is out the proper length and its respective ends are fastened'to the eyes d ol of the hangers, to hang the shade it is simply necessary to loop the cord over the hooks. YThe pull-cord lm, is attached to the suspending-.cord at a point midway between the hooks j' and Z.

To hold the shade at any point desired, I employ a friction device which is adapted to slide up and down upon a vertical rod or wire 0, fastened to the inner face of the right-hand side of the window-frame. This device consists of a block n, made cylindrical in shape for convenient grasping by the hand and having a longitudinal hole through it for the passage of the rod or wire o. Surrounding this block n is a collar p, and threaded'through this collar is a set-screw g, the inner end of which bears upon the end of a block 1f', slidable in a transverse passage in the blockn and adapted to impinge against rod or wire o when it is pushed in by the set-screw. Opposite friction-block 'i' in the other end of the transverse passage, and therefore in transverse alinement with said block fr, is a similar block r', which is held in its recess by the collar p. The friction-blocksrr" are made of someyielding, but tough,v materialsuch as leather, rawhide, hard wood, he-so that when the set-screw is screwed in and the wire is thereby clamped between them the blocks will yield and cause a slight bend or kink in the wire o, and thereby hold the handblock n against sliding action on the wire.

The arrangement of cords shown and described insures the shade-roller being kept in a horizontal position in all its adjustments, and by the arrangement of depending hooks shown the lifting-cord 'm is not only brought ont away from the shade-roller, so that the same may have an nninterrn pted movement the full length of the window, but also is enabled to be placed in a vertical position.

It will be observed that the hanger-cord e is made separate from the pull-cord m and consists of a single cord extending from the left hanger up to the hook or eye j, then diagonally over to the hook or eye jl, thence backward through the hooks or eyes j' Z Z, and thence down to the other hanger. The advantage in this arrangement lies in the fact that the shade may be readily set true and kept true in case of stretching of the cord. After the cord is cut the proper length and its ends tied to the hangers the shade may be put in place by simply looping the cord in the hooks and sliding it therein in either direction to true the shade. When the shade is set true, the pull-cord is attached to the hanger-cord at a point exactly midway between the hooks j' and Z', these hooks serving as an exact guide in properly attaching thepull-cord. Shouldthepartsof thehangercord on either side of the point of connection with the pull-cord stretch unevenly, and thus throw the shade ont of true, the shade may be trued up by simply detaching the pull-cord and straightening the shade and then reattaching the pull-cord to the hanger-cord.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with a window-frame, a shade and hangers, a suspending-cord connected to the hangers,a hookj depending from the top bar of the window-frame at one side and a series of three hooks depending from thetop bar at the other side of the Window and arranged substantially in alinement, the suspending-cord extending from one of the hangers up through hook j, thence diagonally to the outermost one of the series of hooks, thence backward through the three hooks and down to the other hanger, a pull-cord connected to the suspending-cord midway between the two outermost, and means for holding or fastening the pull-cord.

2. In combination, a shade, a suspendingcord, a pull-cord, a vertical stationary wire secured to one side of the window-frame, a sliding block on this wire and connected to the pull-cord,'and means for clamping this sliding block at any point along this wire, said means consisting of a pair of clampingblocks mounted in a transverse passage in said block, the band surrounding the block coincidently with said clamping-blocks, a setscrew threaded through the band and bearing on one of said blocks.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in lthe presence of two witnesses, this 1st day of July, 1902.

THOMAS G. WONDERLY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM SPENSLEY, H. D. HOWARD. 

